Thursday, February 10, 2011

Soapui and external jars

1- The Gui version 1.1 - Adding external jar in a special folder solve this..
According to the SoapUi documentation in their SOAPUI_LOCATION\bin\ext\readme.txt , you can access to any external jars if you add it in this folder :

soapUI ext folder; place external jars that should be added to soapUI classpath here,
for example JDBC drivers, custom libraries, etc..
Good Luck!

Remember the good luck part, you will understand it later.

Now close et opend again Soapui.

If it is working , you will read this in the logs :

INFO [SoapUI] Added [jar_file] to classpath

2.2 - ..but not always, so here is the trick

That is half true. If you are using soapui >3.5.1, and are using a jdbc driver for example it will not work any more.